Dagoberto Castanon, 25, and Rogelio Avila, 24 were discovered hiding in a Fort Myers, Florida, trailer park three days after they allegedly ran a stop sign in a stolen minivan and broadsided the Vasquezes' Nissan Versa.

They are being held in the Lee County Jail on murder charges. Dallas detectives will travel there this week to begin the extradition process.

Police didn't say on Friday how, exactly, they managed to to track the men to the Sunshine State, but finding out their identity was remarkably simple. All cops had to do was check the cell phone they'd left behind in the stolen minivan when they fled.

According to an arrest affidavit, the cell phone led to Castanon's girlfriend. She told police that Castanon arrived home on Tuesday with cuts to the top of his head, telling her he and Avila had been in a crash and that he wasn't sure if the people in the other car had survived.

The girlfriend said she took Castanon to a drug store to get bandages, then dropped him off at Avila's. She didn't hear from him again.

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How about putting the fact that he was an illegal alien who was deported once before? Or would that be an admission that "they just want to work" is a crock? Liberals like Nicholson don't want to tell the whole truth - just the convenient ones.

Running to ft Myers makes sense, because it's quite diverse these days, but if they had gone to nearby Immokalee, chances are they could have gotten away clean, given that town's large illegal alien population.

Maybe that was their eventual destination, it was the most logical. Good job, coppers, nabbing them before they disappeared into a colony of foreign nationals which would form a protective cocoon around them.

I have a feeling that since it was her phone in the stolen van, that the police put a lot of pressure on her such as being a co-conspirator for not only the car theft and the homicide, but a few other things as well.